#Central Asia

Author: Andy Greenberg / Source: WIRED It’s not every day that security researchers discover a new state-sponsored hacking group. Even rarer is the emergence of one whose spyware has 80 distinct components, capable of strange and unique cyberespionage tricks—and who’s kept those tricks under

Source: Atlas Obscura In the Museum of London hangs the colossal minotaur-esque skull of a beast that’s been extinct for nearly 400 years, the auroch. This particular skull dates from the Neolithic period and was discovered in Ilford, East London, where herds of this creature once roamed. Top

Author: Abbey Perreault / Source: Atlas Obscura Imagine you’re strolling through the woods in Central Asia, in a region formerly called Tartary, sometime during the Middle Ages. As you adjust your woollen cloak, you spot an eye-catching plant. A long, swaying stalk juts out from the ground,

Source: Atlas Obscura To the uninitiated, kurt doesn’t exactly look like cheese. But these small, hard white balls are actually pocket-sized dairy snacks that have been enjoyed by Central Asian herders since the Middle Ages. Along with kumis, a beverage made from fermented mare’s milk, and

Author: Erika Engelhaupt / Source: Science News When it comes to wild claims, hold your horses. Free-roaming Przewalski’s horses of Central Asia are often called the last of the wild horses, the only living equines never domesticated. But a new genetic analysis of ancient horse bones suggests